Michael Bublé talks about finding his singing voice by mixing influences from Frank Sinatra, Elvis, and Ella Fitzgerald. He traces how studying these icons shaped his own sound rather than copying any single one.
I was taking a little bit of Frank and mixing. It was a little bit of Elvis and Ella Fitzgerald's vibrato. And a little bit of the way that Bing would drop his epoglottas. And Dean, the way he would Everybody loves Somebody. Sometimes he would do these little flips with his voice. And then I would go and listen to the ink spots. And I would go, oh, I like the way that he sings in his head voice if I didn't care. And I would, like, just impersonate all these different people. And then I'd just become this probably really bad impersonator. And then all of a sudden was like, oh, no, now I found this.
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